Are you forced to buy windows in order to solve certain tasks on the internet e.g. like certain banktasks and to update garmin gps maps and other

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 7 Aug 2014 10:07:09 +0300 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

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> On 31 July 2014 19:20, William Scott Lockwood III <scott at guppylog.com>
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> > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:11 AM, user1 <bqz69 at telia.com> wrote:
> > > Okay.
> > > My questions was more generally when you are not an ubuntu expert
> > > When you have windows you can solve windows tasks easy.
> > > What I mean is there are lots of tasks made only for windows and mac,
> > > seems like several companies do not bother to make tasks suitable for
> > > linux as it probably costs too much to make and maintain and there are
> > > too few linux users in the world?
> > > As I see it Windows thus force people to buy windows even if they are
> > > only using linux (but secretly the backdoor way)?
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> > My opinion is no. I do everything on Linux, including playing windows
> > games. And Open or Libre Office handles common file formats like .docx
> > just fine.
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> Really? I find docx with any tables or images or diagrams heavily distorted
> when opened in [Open,Libre]Office. And pptx is worse of them all. Font size
> changes across multiple slides, over flowing text, background sporadically
> applied across different slides... Looks like to work with certain M$
> office files, you need M$ office :-(

The great myth about 'WYSIWYG': it is a lie.  Word processing files almost 
always look *different* on different computers, even when running the *same* 
operating system version and the same version of the word processing software. 
All it takes is a *different* printer or different accortment of fonts 
installed or different video card or different sized monitor.  Sharing word 
processing files can often be disasterious.


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